12.1 Data Set 1

Each year, the Human Rights Campaign releases a “State Equality Index” which monitors the number of LQBTQ+ rights laws in each state

• data from the 2019 index compiled by Sarah Warbelow, Courtnay Avant, and Colin Kutney (2019).

# Load data (from the bayesrules package)
data(equality_index)
equality <- equality_index

• $Y_{i}$: number of anti-discrimination laws

  • numerical (integer) response variable
  • $i \in \{1, 2, ..., 50\}$

• $X_{i1}$: percentage urban

• indicators $X_{i2}$ and $X_{i3}$

$$X_{i2} = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{GOP} \\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} \quad\text{and}\quad X_{i3} = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{swing} \\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$$